One-year-old girl drowns in river

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD CITY – A one-year-old girl died Sunday after drowning in a river near her home in Barangay Suba, Calatrava, Negros Occidental.

Police Major Ronald Santillan, the town’s police chief, said the child’s mother was busy with household chores and did not notice her daughter had left the house.

It was only after several minutes that she realized her child was missing.

During a frantic search, the mother found her daughter floating in the river behind their house.

The family rushed the toddler to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.